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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:16:48 -0700

I just got off of skype with a young woman from China. I was trying to get her opinion on censorship, and Fung shui and the Tiananmen square massacre. She wouldn't believe me when I was telling her about Tiananmen, instead she kept telling me I was wrong, and I was thinking about Nanking. It was a very eye opening conversation, and I'm still in shock. I asked her about Google and Baidu, she told me she used both. But she also told me the warning on Google's page means nothing. Using babel-fish it translates into, "According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate." The fact that this means nothing, leads me to believe that Google's language on this subject is too soft.

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Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:53:29 -0700

So while in the midst of learning French, I find myself heavily distracted with Archaic english, notably: Middle English. I find it fascinating that after reasons unknown we have ridded the language of second person singular. Yet now with ebonics, a more capricious dialect, we could see words from the south like "yall" emerge. This would mean a full rotation, where at one point "you" was second person plural, now "you" would be second person singular (replacing thou). And, "yall" would become the new second person singular replacing "you."

Think of the great vowel shift, but with pronouns.

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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:15:34 -0700

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Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:34:20 -0700

Ok, I just had an excellent idea: wouldn't it be great if the government required people to keep up with current education-practices and standards in order to say they have a "high school diploma." Let me explain this horrible scenario that I sought to fix. You graduated high school 20yrs ago and forget everything you were taught, but you still have a diploma. Your diploma holds no weight because (a) what you were taught is no longer to-date with what should be taught, ie evolution, or you lack information on the subject; and (b) you forgot all of the material you were taught anyway. The problem is you still brandish your diploma. Now with my plan for government reformed education, you graduate in the 12th grade, and every five years thereafter you have to take a high-school-diploma-equivalency exam. Suddenly the populous is smarter, and we no longer need college to filter out bad apples.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:36:43 -0700

So I went to Starbucks today, and I met this old lady who turned out to be fairly cool. At first I thought she was just a religious hoogie spewing blather about how baptists are wrong, and she is right - just your typical pious and silly religious sectarianism. Then her husband made a comment about state's rights being a myth to which I said something and pulled myself into the conversation. A short while later me and her husband's conversation subsided and she persisted to go old-and-nihilistic and say "we are all screwed by corporate America."

Any way that's the pre-story. So she made fun of Barack Obama, which I wouldn't have normally gotten so upset about. After all, he smokes; he dresses like a middle eastern despot; and, he is black; but, his name?!?! Come on, he can't help that!

I said, "What are you, four? You must be kidding, you aren't going to give him a chance because of his name?" She kind of got offended, it amused me. Then we started talking and she wasn't all that bad. Maybe she was just in mega-ditz Starbucks mode. The kind of stupid an $8.00 cup of coffee can bring is utterly amazing.

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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:26:26 -0800

I bought a condo! I close on Monday. I'm paying 86k; putting down, 30k. My P.I.T.I. + Association fees (5.75% I) is $580.00mo. Cheaper than rent and I own. The condo I bought is two bedrooms, two baths. I'll probably be looking for a non-boring, non-smoking roommate soon. I like this place a lot, it even has a porch.

Goal number one of this year is down, and done; and, I still have 10 months to go. Goal number two should be easy, I just have to win my defamation suit (pro se). Watch out Century 21 Excel, see you in court Sept 24th.

I'm awesome,

Evan

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Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:28:43 -0800

ahhahahah. I just got off the phone with Carol Castillo, the court reporter from my hearing on Jan 19th, she remembered me as "the pro se defendant that did real good." I am awesome. Too bad I have to pay 30.00 for a 15minute hearing: 2.00 a minute is competitive only if you are Miss Cleo.

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Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:58:45 -0800

Cro cop fight tonight, hooters @ humble. Be there.

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Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:11:22 -0800

First person to tell me what "appropriately set" means as a full legal term wins a cookie. The context is, "Your motion to increase bond must be 'appropriately set' to be heard by the court."

I'm guessing, despite the emphasis the judge placed on it and telling me it was a legal term, it means nothing more than a simple: "Don't be ridiculous in your request."

All in favor, say aye.

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Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800

You can find more information about my case at http://apps.jims.hctx.net/courts/ (case number 2006-79122) (do not use a dash for web-app.)